Google's 950 Penalty

[Ms Naughty]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

My apologies, but seriously, why are you worried? The entire adult niche is a big bad neighborhood.

Well, considering I'm a linklist hoping for submissions, it's never a good idea to say "Hey, submit to me, I'm on the last page of google results." LOL That's why I didn't really want to be the prime example in this thread. I am grateful for your help and suggestions, of course, Halfdeck.

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

You seem to not grasp the fact that exchanging links is a violation of Google guidelines.

I'm not saying you should pull links. I have hundreds of trades on one of my domains. The point is if you're black hatting, know the risks involved.

I had not considered exchanging links with other similar sites to be "black hat" but I guess you could read it that way.

"Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links."
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...=35769#quality

One of the reasons I've done link exchanges is to get more traffic to my site. Which is why I've been wondering about the issue of the "traffic link" versus the "full link" idea.

But dare I say that there are plenty of linklists out there who have also participated in link exchanges and they're doing fine. Penisbot's entire system is based on manipulating rank via links and they're still top of many searches.